Sixtus D'Alessio

Sixtus D'Alessio (died November 1920) was one of the six D'Alessio brothers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. D'Alessio was best known for his attempted assassination of Atlantic County Treasurer Enoch Thompson in 1920, although the attempt injured a nearby woman due to the intervention of Thompson's butler. D'Alessio was hunted down and killed by Al Capone in November 1920.

Biography
Sixtus D'Alessio was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to an Italian immigrant family, one of thirteen children. D'Alessio was involved in crime alongside his brothers, including a few murders that led to warrants for their arrest being issued by the Philadelphia Police Department. In 1920, Mickey Doyle decided to hire them to kill Chalky White, and they later decided to capitalize off of this by assassinating White's boss Enoch Thompson and stealing money from his casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The D'Alessio brothers went to war with Thompson and his allies, and Sixtus was involved in an assassination attempt against Thompson on the boardwalk. Sixtus attempted to shoot at Thompson, but Thompson's valet Eddie Kessler pushed D'Alessio, whose bullet hit the arm of a female tourist. Sixtus was shot in the leg while trying to flee, but he managed to escape. In November 1920, Arnold Rothstein and Lucky Luciano gave Thompson the locations of the remaining four D'Alessio brothers after Thompson had Lucien D'Alessio and Matteo D'Alessio murdered. The mediator between Rothstein and Thompson, Johnny Torrio, decided to send his hitman Al Capone to perform the job of killing D'Alessio. He approached him on his waterfront house as D'Alessio returned home with groceries, shooting him once in the forehead. Capone took an apple from D'Alessio's groceries and ate it as he left the crime scene.